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Tuesday, 4 May 2010

New Top Level Apache Projects

In an announcement per mail, the Apache Software Foundation announced a number of new top level projects.

Apache Traffic Server is a richly-featured, fast, scalable, and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server.

Apache Mahout provides scalable implementations of machine learning algorithms on top of Apache Hadoop and other technologies.

Apache Tika is an embeddable, lightweight toolkit for content detection, and analysis.

Apache Nutch is a highly-modular, Web searching engine based on Lucene Java with added Web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database, and parsers for HTML and other document formats.

Apache Avro is a fast data serialization system that includes rich and dynamic schemas in all its processing.

Apache HBase is a distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable.

Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) is a framework for analyzing unstructured information, such as natural language text.

Apache Cassandra ( an advanced, second-generation “NoSQL” distributed data store that has a shared-nothing architecture)

Apache Subversion a source code management system very often used in enterprise and open source projects.

Apache Click is a modern Java EE Web application framework that provides a natural, rich client style programming model.

Apache Shindig is an OpenSocial container and helps you to start hosting OpenSocial apps quickly by providing the code to render gadgets, proxy requests, and handle REST and RPC requests.

I believe I am becoming somewhat an apache fan boy ;-).